December

• Bill Viola
• Major Loan to National Gallery: Nicolas Poussin,'Confirmation', 'Eucharist', 'Extreme Unction', 'Ordination', 'Marriage', c.1637-40.

November

• Redesign of Trafalgar Square opens new era for National Gallery
• Loan to The National Gallery: Orazio Gentileschi, 'The Finding of Moses', 1630-33
• Titian

October

• 'Rolf on Art' at the National Gallery
• Saving Raphael's Madonna for the UK

September

• Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress
• Travelling Companions: Hals: 'Young Man holding a Skull (Vanitas)', 1626-8. Manet: 'Corner of a Café-Concert', about 1878
• Loan from The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: Giovanni Francesco Rustici (1474 - 1554) 'Mercury taking Flight', c. 1515

August

• Unique collaboration between Disney and the National Gallery: 'Looking at Paintings'
• An Indian Encounter: Portraits for Queen Victoria

July

• Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress
• National Gallery Exhibitions 2002/2003
• New Acquisition: Adriaen Brouwer, 'Tavern Scene', c. 1635.
• Temporary Loan from The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam: Van Gogh, 'Parisian Novels', 1887
• Acquisition by the National Gallery: Pierre Subleyras, 'Diana and Endymion' c. 1740.
• Art in the Making: Underdrawings in Renaissance Paintings

June

• Puvis de Chavannes: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
• Light: A National Gallery Touring Exhibition in partnership with Bristol Museums and Art Gallery and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

April

• Tell Us A Picture: The National Gallery goes worldwide with an online project in search of gifted young writers from around the globe.
• My Queen Elizabeth: 50 Prizewinning entries from the CBBC Blue Peter Golden Jubilee portrait competition on show at the National Gallery.
• Take One Picture: An exhibition of work by primary schools, inspired by Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne'.

March

• New Director at the National Gallery.
• Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting.

February

• Access the National Gallery.

January

• Paintings From The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
• Baroque Painting in Genoa.

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